"Do you still see Julia sometimes?"
Ally reddened, as if the allusion had escaped her unintentionally. "Oh,
it was a long time ago I seen her with those gaugings...."
Silence fell again, and Ally presently continued: "Miss Balch left me a
whole lot of things to do over this time."
"Why--has she gone?" Charity inquired with an inner start of
apprehension.
"Didn't you know? She went off the morning after they had the
celebration at Hamblin. I seen her drive by early with Mr. Harney."
There was another silence, measured by the steady tick of the rain
against the window, and, at intervals, by the snipping sound of Ally's
scissors.
Ally gave a meditative laugh. "Do you know what she told me before she
went away? She told me she was going to send for me to come over to
Springfield and make some things for her wedding."
Charity again lifted her heavy lids and stared at Ally's pale pointed
face, which moved to and fro above her moving fingers.
"Is she going to get married?"
Ally let the blouse sink to her knee, and sat gazing at it.
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